Hollywood Backlot: 'The Event'

Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times

Emmy Award-winning actor Zeljko Ivanek gets a touch-up before filming a scene from NBC's conspiracy thriller "The Event," in a downtown Los Angeles building, doubling for the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2010. Ivanek plays the director of national intelligence, Blake Sterling, under President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood), and performs as a mysterious government figure, revealing the existence and the U.S. government detention of a group of people believed to be alien life forms that crashed to Earth in 1944.

Emmy Award-winning actor Zeljko Ivanek gets a touch-up before filming a scene from NBC's conspiracy thriller "The Event," in a downtown Los Angeles building, doubling for the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2010. Ivanek plays the director of national intelligence, Blake Sterling, under President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood), and performs as a mysterious government figure, revealing the existence and the U.S. government detention of a group of people believed to be alien life forms that crashed to Earth in 1944. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Hilary Momberger, the ever-present script supervisor, points to the scene description of an elevator in a downtown Los Angeles building, doubling for the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2010. In the scene, Zeljko Ivanek's director of national intelligence, Blake Sterling, has a brief encounter with Clifton Collins Jr.'s Thomas, who has helped keep a group of alien people hidden from government detection since a 1944 crash.

Hilary Momberger, the ever-present script supervisor, points to the scene description of an elevator in a downtown Los Angeles building, doubling for the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2010. In the scene, Zeljko Ivanek's director of national intelligence, Blake Sterling, has a brief encounter with Clifton Collins Jr.'s Thomas, who has helped keep a group of alien people hidden from government detection since a 1944 crash. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)